{"id":7188,"date":"2011-07-10T23:17:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T06:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2011-07-14T05:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:55:39","slug":"on-july-10th-2011-la-biennale-di-venezia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/07\/10\/on-july-10th-2011-la-biennale-di-venezia\/","title":{"rendered":"On July 10th, 2011, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elad Lassry at the Arsenale with "Untitled (Ghost)", 2011. 35 mm color film (1.33 full frame), 18', silent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…is mostly my reason for stopping off on my way north to Germany – to my old island home (from 1990-91 while studying at I.U.A.V.<\/a> – though it sure has changed in that short time – with the tourist mobs now seeming to run the place) since I avoided the stresses and crowds of the June opening in favor of a later viewing con calma – and despite some rather pessimistic informal anecdotal reviews from friends, I was happy to have some time spent with a few personal highlights, such as Mike Nelson’s dream-like Istanbul-like other-world-within-a-British-Pavilion-world installation<\/a>, Gelitin’s Gelitin Pavillion<\/a> which seemed like the only place in the Biennial where I’d really like to spend some time and hang out, though I’m really sorry to have missed the glass-blowing, performances, music, fire-tending, and requisite public nudity from the opening; Urs Fischer’s really cool half-melted baroque sculpture candles<\/a> boasting their own full time Vigili del Fuoce attendants in case something goes wrong; the mountian of houseplants in front of the Dutch pavilion; the amazing crowds of black tadpoles trying to find shade in the stagnent giardini reflecting pools (but I don’t think that was ‘art’); but especially Elad Lassry’s silent dance film”Untitled (Ghost)<\/em>” which had me transfixed and truly happy for the first time that day – one of many great folks representin’ L.A. like Shannon Ebner and Frances Stark. (website<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is mostly my reason for stopping off on my way north to Germany – to my old island home (from 1990-91 while studying at I.U.A.V. – though it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[684,1000,1003,997,1001,1770,998,270,1002,585,999],"class_list":["post-7188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-biennale-di-venezia","tag-christian-marclay","tag-elad-lassry","tag-frances-stark","tag-italy","tag-mike-nelson","tag-shannon-ebner","tag-urs-fisher","tag-venice","tag-venice-biennial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}